All women are sexy and gorgeous.
Women want to feel good about them by gaining good health and wellness and this can be accomplished through self confidence, self awareness and self acceptance.
This is a great opportunity for women to learn from other women and also teach from their own values and experiences.
Become what to want to be in 2010.
Spring is just around the corner, let yourself be the woman you have always dreamed to become.
So, where should you start?
How about making some changes on how you feel about yourself and have the confidence to share them with the world.
Imaging the confidence of allowing people to see you the way you have always dreamed of.
Positive attitudes are contagious and as you work together with other women to discover your beauty you can pass it on!
Steps to take in finding the sexy you, the healthy you and the beauty within, takes constant searching, tuning and determination. You have doubts, social phobias about how people see you; you lack confidence to succeed in certain areas of your lives.
Sounds depressing I am sure. But the good news is that you all can over come these issues and the things that keep you down. For years most of you have been shown (what you have determined as truth) the way the world sees women, what is considered gorgeous and sexy.
You have been sold on fantasies that most women will never achieve.
The fantasy of being the right size, the right age, the right color or gloss of hair and feeling the failure of just not being gorgeous. Even if you logically know that you don't have to be thin, blond and in your twenties to be sexy and gorgeous and your self esteem is bruised from not having that attention and you have that feeling that you are just not good enough.
Women are competitive; you might compare yourself to others and sometimes not in a rational way. What if women talked about it, discovered together instead of alone.
Get together with other women and make a difference with learning and support.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Leading Cause of Death Among Women
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women, yet nearly half of women would not call 911 if they thought they were having symptoms of a heart attack.
That is just one of several concerning results revealed today by The Go Red for Women Study, funded by the American Heart Association. The program looked at women's heart-health awareness and trends since 1997.
Researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital surveyed 2,300 women twenty five or older by phone and online to find out who knew that heart disease was the number one killer of women, and what they would do if they might be having a heart attack.
Women's alertness of heart disease has greatly increased over the last ten years, but it's still relatively low. Furthermore, the level of knowledge has oscillated between different racial groups. The recent survey shows that minority women continue to be significantly less aware of their risk of heart disease than white women.
Survey reveled that women who correctly recognized heart disease as the leading cause of death among women were:
White women: 60%, Back women: 43%, Hispanic women: 44% and Asian women: 34%
Less than half of women ages twenty five to thirty four, regardless of ethnicity, did not know that heart disease is the number one killer of women.
The study also revealed that a women's knowledge of heart attack symptoms has not improved over the years, a finding that deserves immediate attention, researchers say.
Only 56% of women knew chest, neck, shoulder, and arm pain could be a heart attack symptom.
Only 29% of women knew shortness of breath was a symptom.
17% correctly said chest tightness could be a symptom of a heart attack, while 15% knew nausea was a warning sign.
Fatigue can also be a warning sign of a heart attack in women, yet only 7% of those surveyed were conscious of this symptom.
Most of the women surveyed were also unaware of evidence-based therapies for preventing cardiovascular disease. "Despite recent research showing no benefit of antioxidant vitamins in women, the greater part of women surveyed cited them as a way to prevent heart disease.
Lori Mosca, MD, PhD, MPH, director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, says in a news release. Slightly less than a third of women thought aromatherapy could also help avoid heart disease, but this is not a proven approach.
Those surveyed said that better access to healthy foods and public recreation facilities as well as listing nutritional information in restaurants would make it easier for them to follow healthier lifestyles. Right now, the most common reason they did not do so was that they were busy taking care of a loved one. The second most common reason cited for failing to follow a heart-healthy lifestyle was uncertainty about how to go on, which stemmed from confusing media reports.
The results underscore the importance of heart disease awareness among women and their families. Educational campaigns can help prevent death and disability from cardiovascular disease, the researchers say.
"It is particularly important that national campaigns cut through the diverse messages women receive and deliver the facts about how they can avoid heart disease," says Mosca.
The American Heart Association recently announced its strategic goal for 2020: enhance the cardiovascular health of Americans by 20% and reduce heart disease-related and stroke-related deaths by the same amount.
The research shows that these goals will be virtually impossible to achieve without first creating awareness among multicultural and younger women, educating them about the warning signs of heart attack.
That is just one of several concerning results revealed today by The Go Red for Women Study, funded by the American Heart Association. The program looked at women's heart-health awareness and trends since 1997.
Researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital surveyed 2,300 women twenty five or older by phone and online to find out who knew that heart disease was the number one killer of women, and what they would do if they might be having a heart attack.
Women's alertness of heart disease has greatly increased over the last ten years, but it's still relatively low. Furthermore, the level of knowledge has oscillated between different racial groups. The recent survey shows that minority women continue to be significantly less aware of their risk of heart disease than white women.
Survey reveled that women who correctly recognized heart disease as the leading cause of death among women were:
White women: 60%, Back women: 43%, Hispanic women: 44% and Asian women: 34%
Less than half of women ages twenty five to thirty four, regardless of ethnicity, did not know that heart disease is the number one killer of women.
The study also revealed that a women's knowledge of heart attack symptoms has not improved over the years, a finding that deserves immediate attention, researchers say.
Only 56% of women knew chest, neck, shoulder, and arm pain could be a heart attack symptom.
Only 29% of women knew shortness of breath was a symptom.
17% correctly said chest tightness could be a symptom of a heart attack, while 15% knew nausea was a warning sign.
Fatigue can also be a warning sign of a heart attack in women, yet only 7% of those surveyed were conscious of this symptom.
Most of the women surveyed were also unaware of evidence-based therapies for preventing cardiovascular disease. "Despite recent research showing no benefit of antioxidant vitamins in women, the greater part of women surveyed cited them as a way to prevent heart disease.
Lori Mosca, MD, PhD, MPH, director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, says in a news release. Slightly less than a third of women thought aromatherapy could also help avoid heart disease, but this is not a proven approach.
Those surveyed said that better access to healthy foods and public recreation facilities as well as listing nutritional information in restaurants would make it easier for them to follow healthier lifestyles. Right now, the most common reason they did not do so was that they were busy taking care of a loved one. The second most common reason cited for failing to follow a heart-healthy lifestyle was uncertainty about how to go on, which stemmed from confusing media reports.
The results underscore the importance of heart disease awareness among women and their families. Educational campaigns can help prevent death and disability from cardiovascular disease, the researchers say.
"It is particularly important that national campaigns cut through the diverse messages women receive and deliver the facts about how they can avoid heart disease," says Mosca.
The American Heart Association recently announced its strategic goal for 2020: enhance the cardiovascular health of Americans by 20% and reduce heart disease-related and stroke-related deaths by the same amount.
The research shows that these goals will be virtually impossible to achieve without first creating awareness among multicultural and younger women, educating them about the warning signs of heart attack.
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